A priest is a religious leader who is defined as a mediatory agent between humans and God/gods and sometimes described as "maintainer of the equilibrium between the sacred and the profane in human ...

Sunday, Nov. 5, is the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Mass Readings: Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10; Psalms 131:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 2:7-9, 13; Matthew 23:1-12. Today’s readings are directed at ...

On Maundy Thursday, together with hundreds of priests, living in Rome, I concelebrate with Pope Francis in the Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. As what normally happens in Chrism Masses, priests ...

This month’s exclusive focus on priesthood for the Young Women and Young Men brings into sharp relief some of the gender issues in the Church. Today over at Doves & Serpents there’s an excellent blog ...

The Old Testament Book of Ezekiel opens in the fifth year of exile of King Jehoiachin when Ezekiel the prophet is in his 30th year of life. It begins with the first of Ezekiel’s prophetic visions ...

In the Dec. 11, 2000, issue of The New Yorker, the magazine’s revered literary critic James Wood began his review of the writings of J. F. Powers with a blunt question, “Does anyone, really, like ...

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Centre for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, is pictured in a 2015 photo. (Credit: Paul Haring ...

As nearly 200 Catholic leaders from across the world gather at the Vatican this week for an unprecedented summit on preventing clergy sex abuse, many in the church community are calling for ...

In this month's LDS youth magazine, one article tries to include young women in the exercise of priesthood, while the very next article excludes them. Guest blogger EmJen says we need better ways to ...

Lisa McClain does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Auxiliary Bishops Joseph L. Coffey and William J. Muhm of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, lie prostrate before Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio during their episcopal ordination at the ...

A Jesuit priest who has been on the frontline of advocating for survivors of clerical sexual abuse and developing detailed programs to prevent abuse said the crisis unfolding, again, in the United ...